Paris Olympics: Ariarne Titmus slams conditions in the Paris Olympic village - forcing Australia's head swimming coach to hit back

Australia's queen of nan pool Ariarne Titmus has unleashed connected nan 'ridiculous' conditions wrong nan Olympic Village.

The triple golden medalist is among a big of existent and coming Aussie athletes who person weighed successful connected nan 'eco friendly' accommodation arrangements successful Paris, which see polythene mattresses and beds made from cardboard.

Others person complained astir nan nutrient options. 

Titmus didn't clasp backmost erstwhile asked if she was disappointed not to break her world grounds erstwhile she claimed back-to-back golden medals successful nan 400m freestyle connected Saturday night, contempt smashing nan Olympic record. 

'It astir apt wasn't nan clip I thought I was tin of, but surviving successful nan Olympic Village makes it difficult to perform,' she admitted successful an question and reply connected Sunday.

'It's decidedly not made for precocious performance, truthful it's astir who tin really support it together successful nan mind.'

Her comments sparked an angry consequence from Australian Swimming caput coach Rohan Taylor.

He has since reminded nan swimmers that they they should not fto anything, distract them from their performance, including conditions successful nan Olympic Village.

'The Olympics has ever been a challenge. Every Olympics I've been a portion of, each Olympic Games that you see, is simply a trial of athletes' expertise to travel here, compete and execute erstwhile it matters,' he said.

'It's astir really you negociate yourself and immoderate environments are presented, immoderate nan beds are, immoderate nan nutrient is, everybody deals pinch it.'

'The Olympics has ever been this measurement and that's nan measurement it is. And that's nan beauty of it.'

Taylor added nan Australian Olympic Committee has gone nan other mile for nan athletes, whether it's arranging backstage transport, providing a barista to make coffee, organising other nutrient and aerial conditioning.

'It's conscionable been dealt with,' Taylor said.

'The first fewer days, carrier is ever a challenge. The food, there's galore options. The AOC has sewage a pantry for food, but they person options correct there, you've sewage aggregate different sites to spell and eat.'

'The biggest point for them is to aquatics down, get immoderate massage and immoderate food, and get backmost successful their beds arsenic quickly arsenic possible.'

The beds successful nan Olympic Village person been nan attraction of contention for their deficiency of comfortableness and their 'wokeness'.

The azygous beds, produced by Airwave, characteristic cardboard frames arsenic portion of nan organisers' sustainability efforts.

Titmus, who will defend her 200m freestyle title early Tuesday greeting Australian time isn't nan only Aussie jock to speak retired astir conditions successful nan Athletes Village.

The 'anti-sex' cardboard beds went down for illustration a lead balloon pinch Aussie h2o polo prima Tilly Kearns and teammate Gabi Palm, who said 'my backmost is astir to autumn off' aft their first night.

Tennis prima Daria Saville besides revealed that nan colony is thing for illustration being successful a edifice successful a societal media station connected Tuesday.

'We don't really person hotel-like housekeeping present successful nan Olympic Village, truthful you person to get your ain toilet paper,' she wrote successful a caption alongside video of herself grabbing respective rolls.

It comes aft retired Olympic swimmer James Magnussen took a swipe astatine nan Olympics, claiming that nan truthful eco-friendly stance is ruining athletes' chances of mounting world records.

Magnussen won gold, silver, and bronze medals astatine nan Olympic Games successful 2012 and 2016. 

He besides secured nan title of 100m freestyle world champion successful 2011 and 2013. Magnussen retired from competitory swimming successful 2019.

He believes that nan pinnacle sporting arena successful nan world has an eco-friendly, vegan-first mentality that is damaging performance.

'There's aggregate factors that make colony life acold from ideal,' nan dual Olympian wrote successful his News Corp column.

'It's nan cardboard beds, which can't springiness you optimal sleep.'

'It's nan nary air-conditioning, which is going to play a bigger facet arsenic nan week goes. It was 20 degrees and raining yesterday. It's going to beryllium mid 30s successful nan coming days.

'That's going to play a facet and nan Australian squad having their ain portable aerial conditioners will beryllium a invited relief.

Magnussen believes they've gone overboard and that nan situation that has been created for nan athletes mightiness beryllium nan toughest ever to nutrient world grounds swims.

'The deficiency of world records boils down to this full eco-friendly, c footprint, vegan-first mentality alternatively than precocious performance,' he said.